Beware of The Sewers of Sabotage

Beware of The Sewers of Sabotage                                                  by Kelly Durant  8-3-14

Matt 13: 24-30 Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his field: 25 But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way. 26 But when the blade was sprung up, and brought forth fruit, then appeared the tares also. 27 So the servants of the householder came and said unto him, Sir, didst not thou sow good seed in thy field? from whence then hath it tares? 28 He said unto them, An enemy hath done this. The servants said unto him, Wilt thou then that we go and gather them up? 29 But he said, Nay; lest while ye gather up the tares, ye root up also the wheat with them. 30 Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn.

2. We live in a fallen world full of liars and deception! It affects the world’s powers and it affects each of us personally! The truth sets us free but the lie deceives and it produces disillusionment and scars! To make a point I will tell you an uncomfortable joke. There was a manager named Juan, a married man, who got off late for work and decided to invite the secretary out for a few drinks before going home. Here is one more reason why Salvationists are protected for never drinking! They both drank too many and you can imagine the next sin they went to do later that night. Then at midnight the man thought, I have to tell my wife the truth, but he did not want to suffer for the consequences of the truth. So he stopped by a pool hall and shot one time and put chalk on his shirt and went home at 1:00am. The wife at the door was furious and asked him where he had been. He explained about the mistake with the secretary. Then she looked at him, saw the chalk and said, “You liar, you went out drinking and playing pool with your buddies!” He bows his head, and admits it is true; he went to the pool hall!

Well, as is evident here, some people know how to lie using the truth, but these types of premeditated schemers still answer to God for their deeds! Today I advise everyone to exercise extreme caution regarding the discerning of the truth!  Question everything! Some things appear a certain way but are not. Our adversary, the prince of the air (waves), Satan always applies a partial truth so he can deceive with a lie; it is either not the whole truth, or the truth mixed with a falsehood but always with the intent to get an outcome of subversion, sabotage, and destruction. The outcome is for his control, and not for God’s purity and kingdom!

There are two ways to be deceived, one is by rejecting the truth, and the other is in accepting the lie. Either way one is trusting in the wrong sources, either trusting in your own misinformed carnal self or trusting in the blatant deception of another voice. History proves the masses always easily swallow lies! Most people do not want to look out of place, so they blindly obey the liars even though they inwardly know it is wrong. Mega-millions of people like worthless weeds admired despotic murderers in the past like the Neros, Stalins, & Hitlers! Matthew 7:20 Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.

3. Today we are looking at the case in the Holy Scriptures of a good hard working man, a man producing food for the community with his field of wheat but he had it ruined by an evil enemy. Did the enemy have a smaller field and he was jealous? Why the hated? The motive doesn’t matter, the enemy only had in mind to destroy the good which this farmer had worked so hard for! It was not totally ruined but it was damaged in such a way that the owner was going to have to do a lot of sorting at harvest time to separate the wheat from the weeds. Those servants close to him him first thought, well, it looks like all is lost, so let’s just root it all up now! First thought was, it is not worth it! But God has us all waiting on that day of reaping! This refers to the final ‘day of judgment’ but more can be gleaned from this parable.

There is something we should all see as disturbing in this example of sabotage. All of us can observe how repeatedly Satan has tried to destroy all of God’s creation, secretly sewing evil and then accusing, it is all bad, now destroy it! Things become bad because of the corruption he causes, not God; but his damage does not render the good as worthless. Satan wants to frustrate God and humanity to get Him and people to just destroy it all! God purged the world of evil once with Noah, and He will reap in the final battle but today we must take into account God’s loving nature and plan. He is not hasty to anger and destruction. Psalm 103:8 The Lord is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy.

God wants to save humanity, not destroy it! Jesus life, death, and resurrection confirms that! 2,014 years affirm all is not lost because a few billions of souls have received Jesus as the Son of God! This does imply, however, that 1/3 of the angels that rebelled in heaven along with the all corrupted evil people on earth will continue to remain lost by their own choice. They will be burned in the end when Hades is cast into the lake of fire because they chose the life of being a worthless fruitless weed sucking nutrients away from the good stalks of wheat. These beings are responsible their selves for choosing Satan’s evil destructive ways, and not God’s way!

4. Jesus teachings have very significant meanings and often they are applicable in multiple ways. Jesus exposed the overall plan of Satan and his followers to damage this world but in the final reaping, God saves the righteous and condemns the corrupt. Every true Christian church is a part of the kingdom of God. If we apply the sabotage example to a church, the story might read like this:

There was a church on the hill in Centerville where the Christians in the neighborhood happily attended. The pastor there was a loving compassionate servant, who obeyed God, and his leaders were excellent examples, and together they did many loving things to serve God and others. The town grew and more and more people started coming to the town and to the church from all over.

But within some of these new members discontentment and corruption came in as some of the new ones were evil and they started to gossip all about how they hated everything and they planned how they could get rid of the pastor and the leaders. The church was in God’s will, but the pastor’s preaching of the truth often hit too close to home and offended embittered souls. So secretly they continued sewing accusatory seeds hoping to take over the church but if they could not get a chance at that, then they were going to try to do a scandal so they could get the destruction of the whole thing.

False accusations: They complained that the preaching was not classy like those in other places, they complained the social programs of helping the poor and giving out food was a bad idea and unfair, and they complained that the doctrine was antiquated and that the church needed everything changed. Their evil seeds grew and more were deceived. We think of the church as for positive reinforcement but some people come to reinforce the negative!

5. So what happened? Little by little about 1/3 of the church left to follow the new self-proclaimed self-anointed pastor that was a new member to the church. This discontent critic won others to follow him, but not by an authentic anointing and ministry, but rather by forming a team that sympathized with his invented complaints, criticisms, and accusations. In other words his religion was founded on a common hate for the good which was working just fine for the majority there. So the pattern is that people with unconverted hearts full of hate, jealousy, and pride always love to see those conserving good values authentic in Jesus suffer from the damage and sabotage. They mess it up and then they accuse the righteous ones as being the ones who messed it up! Recall how Nero burned Rome and then blamed it on the Christians! How evil!

This description sounds like I am talking about politics right? How many military coups does the world need? This pattern repeats in the world: for example, Mayor Somebody in Centerville City may not be doing such a bad job but because someone else wants his power and status they throw dirt at them. Then when everyone sees dirt they then doubt that maybe this good one actually does have some real dirt on. Why? As fallen sinful creatures, it is human nature to be too naive to believe anything bad! Every time someone sews an accusation, a weed, or a dirty comment, we should first examine the source from which it has come. It may or may not be true. The war of good vs. evil, of the lie vs. the truth, is a reality everywhere in everything! Many people have an inordinate appetite for salacious ugly news, be it true or not!

6. I have lived through sabotage several times! At the other church in the other city, most everyone was always happy, a lot for God got done, vast multitudes in the community were helped, and then what happened? New people arrived, and some boasted that they had credentials and theological degrees. So since they were prepared in the Bible the Captain and leaders trusted them to teach Sunday school. But a few months later what happens? The next thing everyone shockingly observes that 1/3 of the church is leaving so they can start another church! What for? The church Corps was not bad, everyone was treated fairly and with love, but evil ones created a deceptive perception that the whole church was bad.

But the only thing authentically bad about the church was these bad people! They were accusers, sabotogers, and weeds! They gained followers and tithers, which was their objective; they wanted unmerited authority without paying the price of studying, sacrificing, and being an authentically holy and good leader. Have you ever wondered how many rogue churches are out there started by evil people like this? There are quite a few! These sabotogers are as sheep thieves but actually they are just gathering goats. Matthew 7:16 Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?

7. Now if we apply this parable to a country or nation we could see it in an example like this: There was a land where a people of faith came together to form new communities escaping religious persecution. These people with purified thankful souls developed cities with their bare hands being hard working people and the land soon became famous for its abundance which was produced from the blessings of God and labor of all. These original cities are comparable to the original wheat field.

Then others, who did not respect the faith of the good ones decided they would move in and overtake everything for their selves in parasite fashion, overtaking these cities that they had not built. These evil ones served only their own pride and the god of money bringing in greed and oppression. They sabotaged the once crime free communities with subversions to accomplish their objectives of power and money. They changed those in authority to be ones who would serve them to defend their dirty work with new man-made laws. These laws disarmed people to be able to fight back against all their perversions and debauchery; so then legally, no righteous person could do anything. These evil ones introduced dozens of revenues for destructiveness such as time wasters and empty social causes, alcohol & drug abuse, gambling, sexual immorality, and the exploitation of children and adults, just to name a few! I have even argued with some people who claim that because the USA is corrupted this means that we have no right to ask a Muslim or anyone to accept our way of life while here because we are evil, and that we should accept our defeated status in the world! The presence of evil does not negate the good that still exists. These are the tactics of the aggressive weeds.

Basically haven’t I described the situation of most every city on earth throughout history! In times past many cities started out like wheat fields, with pure and productive people, but then secretively evil ones crept in. Today some people want to claim the evil ones are the Capitalists, while a vast majority of people, after 100,000,000 deaths in this past century’s wars, would argue correctly that evil is more evident in the violence of the Communists and Fascists! Destructive evil is not limited to just evil ideologies; evil is measured by inexcusable offenses against God; by its attacks on the kingdom of God! The peace loving kingdom of Jesus Christ has been under attack ever since day one when Jesus called the 12!

8. The dynamic we experience in the kingdom of God is that we are like wheat and many others are like weeds and we are coexisting side by side. We live in obedience seeking to produce pure sustainable food for the body and soul which feeds ourselves and others, while others as weeds are poisonous and they suck up the nutrients in the soil. Our message is live and let live, while their message is die and make die! Ugly weeds are always discarded or burned because they are worthless. Evil people always know their time of judgment is coming and some repeat and change, but sadly others do not change despite knowing the truth and being shown love.

Psalm 37 Fret not thyself because of evildoers, neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity.2 For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb.3 Trust in the Lord, and do good; so shalt thou dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed.

The war of the pure vs. the impure is more evident than ever! How is it that many people today continue to hate and murder and even do it in the name of a nation, political cause, or for a god? John 16:2 They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service. The New Testament message of Jesus is that of salvation to all if they will only choose it and change to the good side!

9. How many of you have ever worked on a farm? I have done some hard labor on farms and I can imagine the extreme frustration a farmer would have to discover an enemy had sewed weeds in the night! God wants to see all people of the earth live in love and peace obeying the teachings of His Son Jesus that lead our spirits into a world of purity, love, and a heaven on earth. But all of God’s plan is temporarily on hold until the harvest time comes when maturity is complete.  If the meantime, we cannot predict the final fruit of anyone, only God knows.

None of us will ever enjoy complete peace on this earth because the enemy’s lies, accusations, and weeds since they are everywhere, corrupting the good and frustrating the kingdom of God and impeding salvation through Jesus. Weeds appear in all places, in the cities, in the workplace, in some churches, and obviously in the powers that be as mentioned in Ephesians 6:12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places

10. One more last way to interpret this parable is to take it personal, ask yourself, are there any weeds in my spiritual life? Do I need to purge my spirit of anything corrupting me? The final interpretation is that we are all maturing into something, either a wheat stalk giving fruit with grain (souls), or we are maturing into a weed that was toxic to all and producing nothing. John 15:8 Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples.

But we have hope in these words, John 16:33 These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.

I can imagine that each of you have to deal with weeds within your own families, workplace, and in this community. The whole nation is getting a subversive message that the weeds are good! What a lie we are told when commanded to ignore the fact they produce nothing good, that they are not really toxic, that they are useful and can save us from our own ills better than the real food, the wheat. The wheat is that which makes the “bread of Life”! Evil is never good, and good is never evil!

Thank the Lord there will be a final reaping and our reward will follow us for being in God’s will. Our hope is in this promise...Revelation 14:15 And another angel came out of the temple, crying with a loud voice to him that sat on the cloud, Thrust in thy sickle, and reap: for the time is come for thee to reap; for the harvest of the earth is ripe. Do you know where you will go? In God’s barn, heaven?